Pen Time<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cI have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.\u201d \u2014 Pascal
\u201cIt usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.\u201d \u2014 Mark Twain
\u201cIf you want me to talk for ten minutes, I\u2019ll come next week. If you want me to talk for an hour I\u2019ll come tonight.\u201d \u2014 Woodrow Wilson
Also:
Harold Macmillan: \u201cWhat are you doing, prime minister?\u201d
Winston Churchill: \u201cRehearsing my impromptu witticisms.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These all really ring true to me. I tend to be (no, really?!) longwinded and over-verbose in my writing. This is especially true in my business writing, where I tend to write very loooooong emails, presenting all the salient points and drawing clear conclusions at the end in such a way as to be both … Continue reading “It takes time to make time”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27723,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/memory-closure-and-writing.html","url_meta":{"origin":25392,"position":0},"title":"Memory, Closure, and Writing","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-May-12 8:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some interesting review of psych understanding of memory -- and how we tend to remember unfinished tasks, but tend to forget things we consider done, closed, \"off our plate.\"Which calls to mind two particular personal applications (beyond some of the interesting thoughts in the article):1. 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